: a complex tissue in the vascular system of higher plants that consists mainly of sieve tubes and elongated parenchyma cells usually with fibers and that functions in translocation and in support and storage compare xylem
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The remnants of the xylem and phloem — tubules that transport water, sugars and nutrients throughout living leaves — somehow become a root.
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Douglas Main, New York Times, 25 Feb. 2024
The xylem helps to transport water, while the phloem helps move nutrients and sugars.
—Monica Cull, Discover Magazine, 21 Oct. 2022
Just inside the bark is a tissue called phloem.
—Neil Sperry, San Antonio Express-News, 18 June 2021
Just as blood-sucking insects like mosquitoes can pick up malarial parasites or dengue viruses by biting infected humans, sap-sucking insects can pick up microbes by piercing the same infected phloem.
—Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 22 Nov. 2011
Wood had discovered that male Ips beetles secrete a chemical into phloem that attracts potential mates.
—Daniel McGlynn, Discover Magazine, 20 Oct. 2012
By using glowing antibodies that stick to Rickettsia, Caspi-Fluger showed that they were confined to tubes called phloem.
—Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 22 Nov. 2011
Trees that have been completely girdled all the way around, (360 degrees), will have a difficult time recovering since the voles likely chewed through the phloem and cambium.
—oregonlive, 10 Sep. 2022
The beetles burrow into the pines’ bark and lay eggs in living tissues, which the larvae eat through, creating galleries in the trees’ phloem and cambium, eventually disrupting the transport of water and nutrients from the roots to branches.
—Brian Maffly, The Salt Lake Tribune, 29 July 2022
Douglas Main, New York Times, 25 Feb. 2024
The xylem helps to transport water, while the phloem helps move nutrients and sugars.
—Monica Cull, Discover Magazine, 21 Oct. 2022
Just inside the bark is a tissue called phloem.
—Neil Sperry, San Antonio Express-News, 18 June 2021
Just as blood-sucking insects like mosquitoes can pick up malarial parasites or dengue viruses by biting infected humans, sap-sucking insects can pick up microbes by piercing the same infected phloem.
—Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 22 Nov. 2011
Wood had discovered that male Ips beetles secrete a chemical into phloem that attracts potential mates.
—Daniel McGlynn, Discover Magazine, 20 Oct. 2012
By using glowing antibodies that stick to Rickettsia, Caspi-Fluger showed that they were confined to tubes called phloem.
—Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 22 Nov. 2011
Trees that have been completely girdled all the way around, (360 degrees), will have a difficult time recovering since the voles likely chewed through the phloem and cambium.
—oregonlive, 10 Sep. 2022
The beetles burrow into the pines’ bark and lay eggs in living tissues, which the larvae eat through, creating galleries in the trees’ phloem and cambium, eventually disrupting the transport of water and nutrients from the roots to branches.
—Brian Maffly, The Salt Lake Tribune, 29 July 2022
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